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Roddy McDowall dies at 70 in Studio City
Actor Roddy McDowall died at his Studio City home after a cancer diagnosis. The British child star, who fled the London blitz and rose to prominence in Lassie Come Home How Green Was My Valley and Planet of the Apes, was 70. Dennis Osborne confirmed the peaceful death. McDowall had been diagnosed with an incurable cancer that spread through his body. He was born Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall in London on September 17, 1928.
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